"Who is he that shall control me? Why……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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